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VolleyballMom
I have an older PC with 2 partitions, a 16 G C drive containing the OS, XP,
and a 60 G D drive. The manufacturer shipped it that way, and the C drive has
been running out of space. I haven’t been able to remove the partition
because there are non-repairable broken clusters on the C drive and the hard
drive is now having trouble booting, I suspect because of those clusters.
I’ve been making volume shadow back ups of the C drive, D drive and system
state onto an external drive using ntbackup in XP Home. I’ve been reading
posts here so I know that a new HDD will come with software to transfer the
contents of my old HD to the new one. Here are my questions:
1. Will the partitions also transfer to the new HDD using that software? If
yes, is there anything I can do to stop that?
2.I contacted the PC manufacturer and was told that I can use the Recovery
CDs to install the computer to its original state on a new HDD. That would
give me the option of installing without partitions. Could I then use the
back up on the external drive to install the rest of my programs and files?
Would they require the partitions? (I backed up all files except: task
scheduler, temporary files and system volume information: VSS service
alternate, VSS service DB, VSS default provider, system restore)
3.I’d like to try doing a reformat on the old HDD, wiping out the
partitions, or maybe install the OS on the existing D drive just to see if I
can get a little more use out of it. There are no broken clusters on the D
drive and money is really tight now, everyone in our household has been laid
off work. Is there a way to install the OS on the existing D drive?
4.The only program I’m worried about losing is MS Office Ultimate 2007, my
daughter purchased it as a download so we don’t have the CD. It’s already on
2 of our other computers so if I lose the program in all of this will they
let me download it again to the new HDD? (We have all of the purchase
information) Could I just save the program onto the external HDD so I don’t
have to worry about losing it? And, if yes, how?
I know this is a lot. Thank you in advance for your help.
and a 60 G D drive. The manufacturer shipped it that way, and the C drive has
been running out of space. I haven’t been able to remove the partition
because there are non-repairable broken clusters on the C drive and the hard
drive is now having trouble booting, I suspect because of those clusters.
I’ve been making volume shadow back ups of the C drive, D drive and system
state onto an external drive using ntbackup in XP Home. I’ve been reading
posts here so I know that a new HDD will come with software to transfer the
contents of my old HD to the new one. Here are my questions:
1. Will the partitions also transfer to the new HDD using that software? If
yes, is there anything I can do to stop that?
2.I contacted the PC manufacturer and was told that I can use the Recovery
CDs to install the computer to its original state on a new HDD. That would
give me the option of installing without partitions. Could I then use the
back up on the external drive to install the rest of my programs and files?
Would they require the partitions? (I backed up all files except: task
scheduler, temporary files and system volume information: VSS service
alternate, VSS service DB, VSS default provider, system restore)
3.I’d like to try doing a reformat on the old HDD, wiping out the
partitions, or maybe install the OS on the existing D drive just to see if I
can get a little more use out of it. There are no broken clusters on the D
drive and money is really tight now, everyone in our household has been laid
off work. Is there a way to install the OS on the existing D drive?
4.The only program I’m worried about losing is MS Office Ultimate 2007, my
daughter purchased it as a download so we don’t have the CD. It’s already on
2 of our other computers so if I lose the program in all of this will they
let me download it again to the new HDD? (We have all of the purchase
information) Could I just save the program onto the external HDD so I don’t
have to worry about losing it? And, if yes, how?
I know this is a lot. Thank you in advance for your help.